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"Two researchers -- Johannes Kopf from Microsoft, and Dani Lischinski from The Hebrew University -- have successfully created an algorithm that depixelizes and upscales low-resolution 8-bit "pixel art" into lush vector graphics. The algorithm identifies pixel-level details to accurately shade the new image -- but more importantly, the algorithm can create smooth, curved contour lines from only-connected-on-the-diagonal single pixels. Look at the Super Mario World dolphin below, and compare it to the original source sprite below that: the results speak for themselves." - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

Read also http://status.irational.org/letter_... - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

This new “breed” of social robot interacts with people in an interpersonal way, more as a partner rather than as a tool, and opens new applications for socially intelligent machines in the future. I illustrate these possibilities by highlighting a number of research projects from my group at the MIT Media Lab. An important goal of this work is to use socially interactive robots as a scientific tool to understand human behavior, to design machines that can engage us on social and emotional levels as well as learn from people, and to use these insights to create robotic technologies that can enhance human performance and quality of life with specific applications in healthcare, education, entertainment, and telecommunication. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

Speaker Biography Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab. She is a pioneer of social robotics and Human Robot Interaction. - zeroinfluencer

some good stuff in there - pretty dense, need to watch again I think - James Tindall

"There is a strong relationship in transhumanism between the idea of living forever and the idea of having a digital alter ego." - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

#toread - zeroinfluencer

via sermad. // The main data file contains roughly 1 million genetic markers that identify things like eye color, resistance to certain diseases, carrier status of other diseases such as glaucoma, certain types of cancers, obesity, how susceptible I am to Multiple Sclerosis and other important health markers that could be used to prevent health issues in the future. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

details : http://manu.sporny.org/2011... - zeroinfluencer

Check out the bots at the bottom, but they're not listed in the margin. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

"Isn't it possible, though, that many hugely successful computer games—those that depend on or at least utilize storytelling conventions of narrative, character, and theme—can be seen as examples of electronic literature? And isn't it likely that the truly significant new forms of electronic literature will prove to be (like games) so deeply interactive and procedural that it would be impossible to present them as paper-like "e-books"? The editors of First Person have gathered a remarkably diverse group of new media theorists and practitioners to consider the relationship between "story" and "game," as well as the new kinds of artistic creation (literary, performative, playful) that have become possible in the digital environment." - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

I said it to the expense committee.... - Rob Myers

'Flightpath Tegel' - John Foxx & Ian Emes - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

love it - James Tindall

All doable in html5, no? - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

is that not what they used? - James Tindall

nah flaaaash - zeroinfluencer

Has it happened? Yes! Well, sort of. What I didn’t know when I wrote the post last November is that Brainjuicer have been working on this technique and in 2010 they started talking about it publicly. In fact, I’m really looking forward to hearing John Kearon talk about it during tomorrow’s Festival of New MR conference. At the moment bots are being used as a kind of digital concept board or pen-portrait – we’re not (yet) at the level where they can interact successfully in “the wild” or be used to simulate responses. That’s when things will get really intriguing. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

voice and RFID audio playback activation for Karrots - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

Meet DigiViduals™, BrainJuicer’s award-winning research methodology that harnesses the power of social media by using 'research robots' to generate insights that bring segments to life. Each 'research robot’ is programmed to represent a particular type of consumer, segment or brand persona, and released online to conduct mass web ethnography from thousands of social media posts. BrainJuicer researchers then build a rich, detailed life portrait of each character from which understanding, insights and new product ideas can be generated. Unlike current approaches to online 'listening' in social media, DigiViduals target specific demographic groups, account for context, and power a multi-dimensional examination of the powerful insights that emerge in these online conversations. DigiViduals was awarded the Gold Award for Best Research Innovation at the 4A's Jay Chiat Awards in October 2010. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

Translated by Google - Nicole (a DigiVidual) is different: you see the user / character come to life. One brand comes to life. It's different when you get into an advertising campaign and you put a dull, gray story about the outcome of a few focus groups on the table, which all participants received 50 euros to participate, whether you're presenting a story with people flesh and blood, which surround a charming robot and Nicole have collected. Can be much more creative with real stories. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

Hans Ulrich Obrist: Well that is what we are hoping will come out of the debate over the Map Marathon. We want to come up with a new definition. We want our participants to put forward their ideas and hopefully we can find that out from the weekend. There are still very traditional physical maps, we have hand drawn maps. Kevin Kelly for example, he has drawn a map of the Internet in handwriting, so we see a lot of these very physical hand-written maps but there are also digital maps. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

smart art based on Google carto glitches - Golan Levin

Apple Swatch Watches - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

"This is a video of the talk Nathaniel Talbott gave at RubyConf ‘09, introduction Experiment Driven Development and … well, I won’t ruin the surprise" - Tim Diggins

The exhibition Robot Dreams is our second co-production with the Jean Tinguely Museum in Basle. Like the first, the successful Moving Parts exhibition in 2004, which featured contemporary kinetic art, it breaks new ground – this time in the field of artificial intelligence. It explores the political, social and artistic implications of new intellectual ideas associated with robots as the android automatons originally conceived solely as mankind’s drudges. Artists are being invited to develop projects specially for the exhibition. - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

"Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented. We have used our minds to manufacture our selves and thus we humans today are the first cyborgs. We have invented ourselves. And we are not done yet." - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet